New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-01
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

his treatment be made compulsory The world has a.
res been deluged with floods Of ant-compulsoy
va colnation literature Who can with equanimy
fac 10 prospect Of equal amount OF ancompulsory
hydrophobIc incubation matter Issued by an Anti
Con ulsory Hydrophobic incubation League, which
vori doubtless BIO formed the day after tho adoption
OF oh lawl
ere Is mourning at the West End, for Oscar Wilde
Is st. Not no who made such sensation wnen no
VII cents parrot by that name. He disappeared yes.
no s SRrsn Sned In searcs for the pct
gra colored bird keptout Of sight. Mrs; VlnconS ID
aS kiss me- viii confer great favor on the lady by
iny ugatng the extent Of learning whether IL Is
oscar Wide that has spoken-The Boston Transcript.
Az any lecture" says a telephone girl, "where the
speaker can be heard only with difficulty 1t win be
seen that every listener will turn the ear he uses at
the telephone. This would seem to prove that the
tele one Quickens rather than duls the hearing"
Why good man faled.-F1rst Omaha Man
What the matter, not out VI business again. arc
you - 10. .u. ,,s,oa
aInat's queer. thought you started little fac
tory darn stockings for young men, cd bachelors
and others with no women folks to look after 'hem'
That ought to pay" ,,s al, ,,,.,
iss and d. t6oy did hoIr work beautlfuybut then the
enterprise busted"
My, What at, hsppenedp
No the whole crowd Of customers hunted 'em up
Sunday and married them."-lomaha World.
cnlcago's costly and beautiful "AudltOrum" will
holl 5000 people.
There IA much larger demand for old songs and old
time music than most people imagine You would
tho log Cabin In the Lane" Dixie" "Gene'ieve"
SOd Kentucky Home" and kindred selections by
heart aud that the purchases of such pieces would DO
few and far between. Such however. Is by no means
The case There Is not day but that have call for
In "a a
the average think sell more u them than produc
tlon, OF recent date unless there Is craze on
some particular piece, and then everybody wants inc
sam thlng-(A music dealer In st. LOUIS OioDe-
Democrat
avs Galveston business man: "The prohibition
question has given rise to more discus
sion in Texas than any Issue ever
brought t,,ore the people. Those In favor Of pro-
bib ion 1--we principally In the thlckly populated coun
tics In the northern portion Of the State Dallas and
Fort worth being the prohibition strongholds, While
Galveston, san Antonio and FL Paso are opposed 10 IT,
Both sides making vigorous campaign and vast
quantities Of printed mater for and against the
ar ndmont distributed throughout the State The
Prohitonlsts publish illustrated paper in Dali
la at the cost Of H. 900 per month"; and 10000 copies
are distributed each ISSUE II ia generally reported In
r,1as that the brewers and uqJor men OF b. LOUIS
b 70 sent large Of money Into the state W DO
IL al during the campaign. and the Prohiouonlsts are
equally liberal In expanding money, so that the cleo
,ce will he very close Most Of the leading business
men of Texas are opposed to prohibition but 1t Us said
tht fully two-thirs Of the newspapers In the state
ar n favor Of IT, and many lead ng men arc lighting
OIL at side"
i, twelve-year- old lad Of Sag Harbor Me-, daily
and two great grandmothers. The little fellow has
hunted look and lodges at every "ou that ID ePohon-
--tBurlington Free Press.
Tho people OF wichita, Kansas, have become con-
WINGED that the presence OF rank growing weeds In the
principal Of the city intorferes seriously WIN
the boom that Is raging In that metropolis Ana
ocsI paper remarks that the proposition for wichita
to set aside day for general weedcuttins exercise
meets With hearty approval"
voune woman In Sheffield, England, lately
so highly amused at the predicament into whlch q
ne g6or got she broke into ut of laughter whca
and died IN short time. Her neighbours predca,
not stated, but We suspect that she attempted
to got into hammock that was susPehooo 'oo nisn'
-tNorristown Herald
Governor Marmaduke, Of Missouri, has appointed
number " women as notaries public
Got Taken In.-First Farmer-Evcr been up ter the
aOniy once, OH Cot took In, did yer
Yes but I'm getting even ON them there CITY ioiAs
Yo alri Howr ,,
Pm tahin' city boarders. "-(omaha World.
Tho Waterbury American" tells Of an Episcopal |
clergyman II Connecticut VINO not long aeo hse'oo VII
iating at funeral contrary 10 the express wishes
OF all the persons interested Inquiry revealed the
fact that he had tho canonca right TO do 80, but he
was severely oensured by all right thinking persons Tor
thu insisting on a baro technical right And one OF
bis own clerical brethren said that no man OF nhe
feeling would thus thrust himself where he was not
wanted oven IL he had all tho canons Of the church DO
hind him.
"Harpers Bazaar" iaments the absence from the YER
nacular Of equivalents for hance and hancee IL mas
0my daughters engaged" awkward, " my daughters |
beay, old. fashioned, "my daughters young man
countried and my daughters lover" scarcely proper
What Is the matter with "berothed f-(Boston Tran
script.
The cry for Statehood Is now heard in all the Tor
rtores except Alaska The people In these would
be States are loud In denouncng the Injustice VI
keeping them out of the Union, when they surpass
many State population. wealth. resources ana sze
Pretty soon they say they will cease asking to come
IN az single States, and demand to be admitted as
double States
Rev Mr. stlcker. ID. D-So you don't think l
practice what l preach deacon
Deacon Kicker-Well, considering that you have
been preaching on the subject Of resignation for
tho last forty nine years, don't quite think you no.
-(T1i Bits.